Albert Ingham
Albert Edward Ingham FRS (3 April 1900 – 6 September 1967) was an English mathematician known for his work on prime numbers.
He was born in Northampton, England, and attended Stafford Grammar School. After serving in the British Army in World War I, he began studying at Trinity College, Cambridge in January 1919. He did very well in the Mathematical Tripos, earning a Wrangler distinction, and won the Smith Prize in 1921. He was elected a fellow of Trinity College in 1922 and received an 1851 Research Fellowship.
Ingham became a Reader at the University of Leeds in 1926. He returned to Cambridge in 1930 as a fellow of King’s College and a lecturer, taking the post after the death of Frank Ramsey. He supervised several PhD students, including C. Brian Haselgrove, Wolfgang Fuchs, Christopher Hooley, and Robert Rankin.
In 1937 he proved an important result about the distribution of prime numbers and the gaps between consecutive primes, using ideas related to the Riemann zeta function. He retired from teaching in 1959. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1945. He married Rose Marie "Jane" Tupper-Carey in 1932, and they had two sons. He died in Switzerland in 1967 at the age of 67. His only book is On the Distribution of Prime Numbers, published in 1932. He had an Erdős Number of 1.
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